Assistant Professor Robert Gudmestad Clark B-353 970-491-6050 Robert.Gudmestad@colostate.edu

Education:

Ph.D., Louisiana State University
M.A., University of Richmond
B.A., North Dakota State University

Specializing in: Southern History

 

Current Research Interests:

Completing book manuscript on the importance of steamboats for the development of the Antebellum South.

Courses taught:

HIST 150: U.S. History to 1876
HIST 345: Civil War Era
HIST 346: New South and Reconstruction
HIST 611: Research Seminar

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

• A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade (LSU Press, 2003)
• “The Troubled Legacy of Isaac Franklin: The Enterprise of Slave Trading,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 62 (Fall 2003): 193-217.
• “Baseball, the Lost Cause, and the New South in Richmond, Virginia, 1883-1890,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 106 (Summer, 1998): 267-300.
• “The Revolutionary Impact of Steamboats on the Lower Mississippi Valley,” in Technology, Innovation, and Southern Industrialization, Michele Gillespie and Susanna Delfino, eds. (University of Missouri Press, 2008).

 

FELLOWSHIPS/MAJOR GRANTS:

• Research Fellowship, Mercantile Library, University of Missouri-St. Louis.